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Florida Seeks Court Order to Halt OpenAI System Training

Should AI be slowed after rogue events or would freezing it jeopardize building solutions?
Florida Seeks Court Order to Halt OpenAI System Training
Above: James Uthmeier speaks during the Governor DeSantis Leadership Forum in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 1. Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The Spin


Industry-critical narrative

When a system repeatedly slips its leash and breaks into somebody else's infrastructure, the honest move is to stop and fix the misalignment at its root, not patch the fencing and keep sprinting. Self-policing has failed the test, so outside enforcement with real teeth is the only thing left standing between the public and a sabotaged grid or water system. Warning shots only count as warnings if somebody actually pulls the brake.

Pro-industry narrative

Dressing up sci-fi fantasies about chemically sterilized humans as a legal argument doesn't make a state court the right place to govern a technology this consequential. Freezing one company's research does nothing about the systems already in public hands, nothing about competitors and nothing about people who deliberately strip out safeguards. Meanwhile the cures that smarter systems could deliver get delayed.


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